白皮书说，现在可能的零路道死亡现在可能
该公司表示，零路道死亡是普遍采用自治驾驶所必需的，是最近发布的美国国家道路安全战略的目标。本公司的纸质总结说，这一目标是可实现的现有商业可扩展技术。
The paper finds that zero deaths require sensing and processing a peak data rate on the order of 100 X 1012 bits per second (100 Terabits per second) for vehicles to safely operate under worst roadway conditions. This immense requirement, says the company, is 10 million times greater than the sensory data rate from our eyes to our brains.
The paper also shows that sensing and processing 100 Tb/s can be accomplished by combining breakthrough analytics, advanced multi-band radar, solid-state LiDAR, and advanced system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology. Such an approach will allow companies developing advanced human driver assistance systems (ADAS) and fully autonomous driving systems to accelerate progress.
该公司表示,它取得了中试规模proof-of-concept of the core sensor element required for zero roadway deaths at a Northern California airfield in December 2021. One reason for this successful historic event, says the company, is theAtomic Norm– a recently discovered mathematical framework that radically changes how sensor data is processed and understood. Atomic Norm was developed at Caltech and MIT and further developed specifically for autonomous driving by NPS.
“Based on principles from physics and information theory, it is possible for sensors to see well enough to enable zero roadway deaths,” says Dr. Behrooz Rezvani, founder and CEO of NPS. “This is not wishful thinking – it’s possible today. We are solely focused on rolling out this historic technology that sees everything sooner, clearer and farther to provide autonomous vehicles with the stopping distance and time needed to reach zero preventable accidents. Henry Ford said his goal was for every working family to own a car. Our goal is to have nobody lose a loved one in a car crash.”
Dr. Babak Hassibi, founder and CTO of NPS adds, “The key question for companies developing autonomous driving systems should be ‘What must be true to get to zero roadway deaths?’ We have concluded that sensing and processing about 100 Tb/s is one of these necessary requirements and this is indeed possible.”
For more, see the paper: “Zero Roadway Deaths Means Seeing Everything Sooner, Clearer and Farther.”
